The Marriage of Mercury and Philology: Problems and Outcomes in Digital Philology

25 March, 08 09:00 AM - 27 March, 08 05:00 PM

e-Science Institute, 15 South College Street, Edinburgh

Any slides or other material generated as a result of this event can be found at: www.nesc.ac.uk/action/esi/contribution.cfm?Title=854

CALL FOR PAPER TOPICS:

We welcome proposals that discuss any aspect of the interaction between ICT and philology.

In order to provide a good overview of the current state of Digital Philology, the conference will focus on four main topics:

1. Tools:
   Pieces of software; technologies and multimedia tools employed to create digital critical and genetic editions; multimedia archives and collaborative publications (representation, cataloguing, collation, comparison, textual analysis, textual genesis, interchange, management and preservation of manuscripts and printed editions in text/image/audio/video format).
2. Products:
   Digital critical and genetic editions, multimedia archives, and collaborative publications available on CD-ROMs and/or on the World Wide Web (current projects, work in progress, updates on continuing mature projects).
3. Methodologies:
   Impact of ICT on philological studies
   Methodological approaches used when preparing a digital edition
   Accomplishment of a digital edition that is truly new and innovative
   What ICT in textual criticism enables scholars to do that could not be done before
   Digital philology as "traditional" philology in a new fashion
   Digital philology as a new discipline in itself
   Relation between digital and traditional philology
   Collaborative publication of digital editions / Collaborative philological research in a virtual environment.
4. Learning/Teaching:
   The use of critical and genetic editions and multimedia archives in learning/teaching languages, linguistics, literature, history, palaeography, creative writing, textual criticism, digital philology.

TYPES OF PROPOSAL:

• Paper:
  Proposals for papers should be no less than 750 words. Papers will be allocated 50 minutes for presentation, including a 10 minute question-answer session.
• Workshop:
  Proposals for workshops should be no less than 500 words. Workshops will be allocated 50 minutes for presentation, including 30 minutes of collaborative work
.

There should be no difference in quality between papers and workshop presentations. The same academic standards should apply in both cases, but workshops may be a more suitable way of presenting projects which teaching and interactive purposes, and of providing an opportunity for students to exchange ideas, methods and techniques with international scholars. The choice between the two modes of presentation should depend on the most effective and informative way of communicating the scientific content of the proposal.

Proposals are peer-reviewed.

FORMAT OF PROPOSAL

All proposals must be submitted electronically using the on-line proposal form found at the conference website. Please pay particular attention to the format given below. The files will be used not only for the referee's reviews, but also for placing abstracts on the Web. Proposals which do not conform to this format will be returned to the authors for reformatting, or may not be considered if they arrive very close to the deadline.

The information required for all proposals includes:

• Type of proposal: paper, workshop
• Title: title of paper, workshop
• Keywords: three keywords (maximum) describing the main contents of the paper or workshop
• Author: name of first author
• Affiliation: of first author
• E-Mail: of first author
• Author: name of second author (repeat these three headings as necessary)
• Affiliation: of second author
• E-Mail: of second author
• PROPOSAL FORM

The deadline for proposals is 7th March 2008

Bookings

Please go to the bookings page to apply to attend this meeting. If you want to attend the workshop as a speaker/workshop leader you should upload your proposal at the time of registration. The required information for the proposals is detailed here.

PLEASE NOTE THERE IS A CHARGE ASSOCIATED WITH THIS EVENT PLEASE CHECK THE BOOKINGS PAGE FOR FURTHER DETAIL.

Please do not make any travel bookings until your application has been formally accepted.

Enquiries

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